[Simh] VAX Hobbyist Games

[Tony Nicholson]

I'm enjoying reading various software recollections (e.g. BLISS and various
game reminiscing). Thank you to those of you sharing your experiences!

Many of us that lurk here are interested in preserving some of the software
history from our pasts - so I thought I'd share some of the games and
software that came on my original OpenVMS Hobbyist Media Kit V1.0 for VAX.

This is the original Hobbyist distribution put together by Pat Jankowiak
and others at the Dallas Fort Worth Local User Group shortly after the
OpenVMS Hobbyist program was announced. The CD-ROM is long out of print
and is a snapshot of various DECUS games and utilities from around 1997.
It includes TREK, NETHACK, ADVENTURE etc.

I've extracted only the [SOFTWARE....] and [HISTORICAL...] directory trees
to a new ODS2 volume (and omitted the OpenVMS V6.1 and V5.5-2 VAX software
distribution kits) - so it should be OK to share it this way!

You can get a zip file (about 37MB) containing the ODS2 format disk image at

https://drive.google.com/file/d/101f9QjOWAcQqMDJJskekyuxQEXeK4QCO/view?usp=sharing

Mount it using LDDRIVER (see http://www.digiater.nl/ where you can download
and install the last version that supported VAX - lddriver_v83.zip) - or
attach it directly as a disk drive to SIMH VAX using

(e.g. to DUA2:)
set rq2 autosize
att rq2 hobbyist.dsk

then once OpenVMS is up, mount it using

$ mount/system dua2: hobbyist

Enjoy!

Tony

[Dan Gahlinger]

So can I get any of you to try out Castle and see if you can find any bugs?
no one plays text adventures any more...

http://trek7.sourceforge.net/files/castle/

Code for Dos/Windows, Linux, and Mac.
If there was a halfway decent pascal compiler for Vax, I'd port it there,
but I can't even do "writeln" or records on the standard VMS Pascal...

Dan.
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From: Simh <simh-***@trailing-edge.com> on behalf of Tony Nicholson <***@computer.org>
Sent: February 3, 2018 8:50 PM
To: Simh
Subject: [Simh] VAX Hobbyist Games

I'm enjoying reading various software recollections (e.g. BLISS and various game reminiscing). Thank you to those of you sharing your experiences!

Many of us that lurk here are interested in preserving some of the software history from our pasts - so I thought I'd share some of the games and software that came on my original OpenVMS Hobbyist Media Kit V1.0 for VAX.

This is the original Hobbyist distribution put together by Pat Jankowiak and others at the Dallas Fort Worth Local User Group shortly after the OpenVMS Hobbyist program was announced. The CD-ROM is long out of print and is a snapshot of various DECUS games and utilities from around 1997. It includes TREK, NETHACK, ADVENTURE etc.

I've extracted only the [SOFTWARE....] and [HISTORICAL...] directory trees to a new ODS2 volume (and omitted the OpenVMS V6.1 and V5.5-2 VAX software distribution kits) - so it should be OK to share it this way!

You can get a zip file (about 37MB) containing the ODS2 format disk image at

https://drive.google.com/file/d/101f9QjOWAcQqMDJJskekyuxQEXeK4QCO/view?usp=sharing

Mount it using LDDRIVER (see http://www.digiater.nl/ where you can download and install the last version that supported VAX - lddriver_v83.zip) - or attach it directly as a disk drive to SIMH VAX using

(e.g. to DUA2:)
set rq2 autosize
att rq2 hobbyist.dsk

then once OpenVMS is up, mount it using

$ mount/system dua2: hobbyist

Enjoy!

Tony

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